Configure Bing Search

In this article we can explore how to configure Bing Search in SharePoint.

What is Bing Search?

Bing Search in SharePoint allows searching in www.bing.com within SharePoint.

1. It requires Enterprise edition of SharePoint to configure this

What is the Advantage?

Users can use SharePoint as a Central Page to search multiple search engines.

How Bing Search is achieved?

We are using Federated Search to achieve this. Here the user search term is passed to Bing.com through Open Search protocol.

There are 2 types of Search in SharePoint. One is Indexed Search where the SharePoint Crawler periodically collects data of external systems & indexes them in SharePoint database.

The other one is Federated Search which can be used for systems where Indexing is not possible / time consuming / resource centric / result freshness required. In Federated Search, the user search term is passed to the third party search provider using Query strings & the result can be retrieved as RSS and will be formatted and displayed in SharePoint.